Book contents
- Motivating Self and Others
- Motivating Self and Others
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Motivation and Optimal Functioning
- Chapter 2 Self-Direction
- Chapter 3 Core Personal Goals
- Chapter 4 Motivational Systems Theory
- Chapter 5 Thriving with Social Purpose
- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Origins of Social Purpose
- Chapter 7 Life Meaning
- Chapter 8 Guiding Principles for Motivating Self and Others
- Chapter 9 Your Toolbox for Motivating Self and Others
- References
- Index
Chapter 5 - Thriving with Social Purpose
Human Motivation at Its Best
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2020
- Motivating Self and Others
- Motivating Self and Others
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Motivation and Optimal Functioning
- Chapter 2 Self-Direction
- Chapter 3 Core Personal Goals
- Chapter 4 Motivational Systems Theory
- Chapter 5 Thriving with Social Purpose
- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Origins of Social Purpose
- Chapter 7 Life Meaning
- Chapter 8 Guiding Principles for Motivating Self and Others
- Chapter 9 Your Toolbox for Motivating Self and Others
- References
- Index
Summary
The Thriving with Social Purpose (TSP) motivational pattern focuses on the powerful consequences of effectively “amplifying” each of the components within our motivational systems to promote optimal functioning, while also infusing goals focused on belonging, helping, equity, and social responsibility into our “home page” motivational orientation. This chapter thus explains, in scientific terms, what it means to thrive and how social purpose goals can elevate our life experience. Consistent with the idea that humans are “whole-person-in-context” living systems, this chapter also discusses ways to enhance motivation and optimal functioning by amplifying the nonmotivational components of human functioning (i.e., biology, knowledge and skills, and key features of the environment). This is the chapter that scholars can best use to generate a wide range of hypotheses for future research about motivation and optimal functioning and that professionals can best use to guide and catalyze their (intrinsically whole-person) intervention efforts.
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- Motivating Self and OthersThriving with Social Purpose, Life Meaning, and the Pursuit of Core Personal Goals, pp. 177 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020